Re:+5: Anti-Bush Tirade
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In the Year 2020
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Maybe if those making 60k would realize that they don't need two H2's in their driveway along with premium cable service and steak every night they wouldn't be so bad off. I sit on about 20K a year right now and I'm quite comfortable. I have enough at the end of the month for a good savings when things work out well, and I'm able to afford it when things don't work out so well (although it's still annoying). The people in this country need to grow up and learn how to actually manage money.
I think it would be better if he kept his router actually, that way he could play dumb and say "I thought I was connecting to my router, I didn't know I was freeloading, really." Could anyone make a dispute against him in that situation? If he got rid of the router all together then he's pretty much caught red handed.
You stand to make some money on this deal too, actually. Just make sure you feel ok being known as a "computer guy" because after doing something like that, they'll come to you for every problem they have.
Good to do a google search on url's before visiting if there's any question. I was unfortunate enough to see tubgirl once and I'm still not sure if my vision has completely returned.
Your virus scanner, firewall, anti-spyware software and possibly even a non-admin user aren't going to stop this vulnerability. Your IE-Settings can, but only if EVERYTHING is turned off, which is not really feasable as it disables any sort of functionality that people are looking for from a web browser. Also, are you going to explain to all of the computer illiterate people that they need to create a second user just for browsing the web? No, of course not. This model works on other operating systems because a non-admin user can actually use programs effectively. Unfortunatley, many programs for windows are written like crap and require administrative rights.
Safe computing habits are VERY important, but don't try to take the blame for security holes and throw it on the end user.
Unfortunately it's not really equivalent. The equivalent problem on OSX to the BSOD would be a kernel panic, and while it is prettier most of the time, it can sometimes be even nastier than the windows BSOD (if it's in verbose mode).
For the most part, however, I would say that OSX fails much more gracefully than Windows.
It wasn't spybot, or spyware blaster for that matter (don't know if you have that installed, but I do). I've kept up to date completely and the immunizations didn't protect against this attack. You must be running something else that helped you out.
I really don't mean to be offensive with this comment... but your addmitting to staring into both the sun as well as a laser beam is not helping your case much.
Well, their website has a decent amount of information about it. It's being actively developed and Debian is providing a binary distrobution of it right now. I don't know whole lot about it, but it seems like an interesting project.
Yes, gearing does make a very large difference, but you have to admit that it can definately help to have an engine that can rev high as well.
I think you're right about the reason for tuners running rich, but I don't think it has anything to do with the type of engine, except for rotaries that is, if you don't know how to tune a car, then you don't know to tune a car and it's that simple. Personally, once I've got mine back on the road I'll drive it for a while as I save up money, but eventually I'll have it dyno-tuned with a wideband so that it's running at it's peak performance. I plan on doing that every time I do a major upgrade.
As far as the Mustang goes, I personally like seeing things that aren't done very often, plus I'm a big import fan, so it definately seems like a nice idea to me. I can understand where you're coming from, though. I remember how I felt when they took apart a brand new 350z to make a HoneyBee drift on Monster Garage. UGH! haha
can't believe I'm risking karma on this... Ok, you're right that ford makes some big engines that have a decent redline on them and I'm sorry for making that generalization. However, I would also like to add that a redline isn't a measurement of power period, what it does give you, though is a more flexible car when driving on a track with corners. Your big block might win the drag race, but I'm sure it would be a different story if the car actually has to turn. Btw, please don't give me the story about how that's not a valid arguement since turning doesn't show power. I've heard that so many times and I know that. What it does show is that different cars are suited to different things).
As far as the small engine's running pig rich, what cars have you seen (I'm truly curious, not just rebutting)? A well tuned car shouldn't run that rich no matter what sort of engine it has in it.
I'd love it if we could buy phones like that here, but unfortunately, there are so many BS lockouts and incompatibilities that if you purchase a phone elsewhere, you really don't know whether it will work with your cellular provider or not. There's no question in my eyes that something needs to be done about it, but try to tell that to the people who can actually make a difference. A) they don't care, B) they're probably making money from the current system so good luck getting them to change it.
What exactly is wrong with that? The life of that car was probably greatly extended through that engine swap, not to mention I bet it's making more power now and drinking about 1/2 as much gas. Oh, did I mention a redline higher than 4k rpm?
No worries man, it's a valid point. Personally I think things like that just add a bit of character to slashdot, but I can certainly understand it getting old.
Honestly I didn't really mean for the post to be disrespectful, poking fun in a joking manner maybe, but that's about it. I just happened to remember that I had seen something like this on a TV show a while back and wondered if anyone else had seen the same show.
In the future I'll try to be a bit more careful in the phrasing, but honestly it was all in fun.
What's wrong with targetted ads? As long as they don't come with any more frequency anyway. I personally like the idea as I might find out about something I'm actually interested in rather than watching yet another commercial with some ripped jackass selling workout videos. Now, if it entails having some sort of monitoring system on my computer or another type of privacy invasion, no, I don't like the idea. If it's through the type of television I've been watching, I can deal with that.
To quote: "The point is that those who get the software, also get the source code, and that they are allowed to do whatever they want with it"
This is exactly how any software company works. How often do you think the actual programmer keeps the rights to the software that they write when working for a company? Now, when your company gets the source code for the software, I seriously doubt that they are going to release that source code on the internet or by any means for that matter, effectively making that software a closed source solution. Unless, of course, you make some specification that they would have to release it as part of your working agreement. If that was the case, however, I think the company would quickly find another developer. Why would they want to pay for software to be developed that would become freely available to anyone else who chooses to use it?
The analogy doesn't really work though, because you're a contractor giving the source code and final product to the company (or individual) that hired you. You aren't putting the source code up on your website for free download where everyone has the ability to take it and do what they want with it. If you did that, then neither you nor the person who hired you is going to be very happy. Not to mention the fact that websites really are all custom made. That's the entire point of a website. This being the case, anyone else who did get access to the full source and original tiffs etc., would not really be all that much farther along because who wants to duplicate someone elses site?
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Maybe if those making 60k would realize that they don't need two H2's in their driveway along with premium cable service and steak every night they wouldn't be so bad off. I sit on about 20K a year right now and I'm quite comfortable. I have enough at the end of the month for a good savings when things work out well, and I'm able to afford it when things don't work out so well (although it's still annoying). The people in this country need to grow up and learn how to actually manage money.
Funny, yes, but an underrated or two would be good, too. Parent was at 0 when I saw the post.
I think it would be better if he kept his router actually, that way he could play dumb and say "I thought I was connecting to my router, I didn't know I was freeloading, really." Could anyone make a dispute against him in that situation? If he got rid of the router all together then he's pretty much caught red handed.
You stand to make some money on this deal too, actually. Just make sure you feel ok being known as a "computer guy" because after doing something like that, they'll come to you for every problem they have.
Looks like it has a PCI Express slot though, so you can change that pretty quickly.
Ugh, don't just say AUGH MY EYES! Tell us what it is so that the unfortunate overcurious slashdotters don't need to follow you into optical oblivion.
Yes, and if they all get up to that much money with real bids I'd certainly do it myself as well.
Good to do a google search on url's before visiting if there's any question. I was unfortunate enough to see tubgirl once and I'm still not sure if my vision has completely returned.
Insightful? Mods, it's not insightful if it's BS.
Your virus scanner, firewall, anti-spyware software and possibly even a non-admin user aren't going to stop this vulnerability. Your IE-Settings can, but only if EVERYTHING is turned off, which is not really feasable as it disables any sort of functionality that people are looking for from a web browser. Also, are you going to explain to all of the computer illiterate people that they need to create a second user just for browsing the web? No, of course not. This model works on other operating systems because a non-admin user can actually use programs effectively. Unfortunatley, many programs for windows are written like crap and require administrative rights.
Safe computing habits are VERY important, but don't try to take the blame for security holes and throw it on the end user.
Unfortunately it's not really equivalent. The equivalent problem on OSX to the BSOD would be a kernel panic, and while it is prettier most of the time, it can sometimes be even nastier than the windows BSOD (if it's in verbose mode).
For the most part, however, I would say that OSX fails much more gracefully than Windows.
It wasn't spybot, or spyware blaster for that matter (don't know if you have that installed, but I do). I've kept up to date completely and the immunizations didn't protect against this attack. You must be running something else that helped you out.
Yup. 16-bits would have died this new years, so 8-bit's definately would have bit the dust by now.
I really don't mean to be offensive with this comment... but your addmitting to staring into both the sun as well as a laser beam is not helping your case much.
Well, their website has a decent amount of information about it. It's being actively developed and Debian is providing a binary distrobution of it right now. I don't know whole lot about it, but it seems like an interesting project.
Yes, gearing does make a very large difference, but you have to admit that it can definately help to have an engine that can rev high as well.
I think you're right about the reason for tuners running rich, but I don't think it has anything to do with the type of engine, except for rotaries that is, if you don't know how to tune a car, then you don't know to tune a car and it's that simple. Personally, once I've got mine back on the road I'll drive it for a while as I save up money, but eventually I'll have it dyno-tuned with a wideband so that it's running at it's peak performance. I plan on doing that every time I do a major upgrade.
As far as the Mustang goes, I personally like seeing things that aren't done very often, plus I'm a big import fan, so it definately seems like a nice idea to me. I can understand where you're coming from, though. I remember how I felt when they took apart a brand new 350z to make a HoneyBee drift on Monster Garage. UGH! haha
can't believe I'm risking karma on this... Ok, you're right that ford makes some big engines that have a decent redline on them and I'm sorry for making that generalization. However, I would also like to add that a redline isn't a measurement of power period, what it does give you, though is a more flexible car when driving on a track with corners. Your big block might win the drag race, but I'm sure it would be a different story if the car actually has to turn. Btw, please don't give me the story about how that's not a valid arguement since turning doesn't show power. I've heard that so many times and I know that. What it does show is that different cars are suited to different things).
As far as the small engine's running pig rich, what cars have you seen (I'm truly curious, not just rebutting)? A well tuned car shouldn't run that rich no matter what sort of engine it has in it.
I'd love it if we could buy phones like that here, but unfortunately, there are so many BS lockouts and incompatibilities that if you purchase a phone elsewhere, you really don't know whether it will work with your cellular provider or not. There's no question in my eyes that something needs to be done about it, but try to tell that to the people who can actually make a difference. A) they don't care, B) they're probably making money from the current system so good luck getting them to change it.
What exactly is wrong with that? The life of that car was probably greatly extended through that engine swap, not to mention I bet it's making more power now and drinking about 1/2 as much gas. Oh, did I mention a redline higher than 4k rpm?
Just another example of why wget is your friend.
No worries man, it's a valid point. Personally I think things like that just add a bit of character to slashdot, but I can certainly understand it getting old.
Honestly I didn't really mean for the post to be disrespectful, poking fun in a joking manner maybe, but that's about it. I just happened to remember that I had seen something like this on a TV show a while back and wondered if anyone else had seen the same show.
In the future I'll try to be a bit more careful in the phrasing, but honestly it was all in fun.
Did anyone else see this on "Beyond 2000" in like... 1996?
What's wrong with targetted ads? As long as they don't come with any more frequency anyway. I personally like the idea as I might find out about something I'm actually interested in rather than watching yet another commercial with some ripped jackass selling workout videos. Now, if it entails having some sort of monitoring system on my computer or another type of privacy invasion, no, I don't like the idea. If it's through the type of television I've been watching, I can deal with that.
To quote:
"The point is that those who get the software, also get the source code, and that they are allowed to do whatever they want with it"
This is exactly how any software company works. How often do you think the actual programmer keeps the rights to the software that they write when working for a company? Now, when your company gets the source code for the software, I seriously doubt that they are going to release that source code on the internet or by any means for that matter, effectively making that software a closed source solution. Unless, of course, you make some specification that they would have to release it as part of your working agreement. If that was the case, however, I think the company would quickly find another developer. Why would they want to pay for software to be developed that would become freely available to anyone else who chooses to use it?
The analogy doesn't really work though, because you're a contractor giving the source code and final product to the company (or individual) that hired you. You aren't putting the source code up on your website for free download where everyone has the ability to take it and do what they want with it. If you did that, then neither you nor the person who hired you is going to be very happy. Not to mention the fact that websites really are all custom made. That's the entire point of a website. This being the case, anyone else who did get access to the full source and original tiffs etc., would not really be all that much farther along because who wants to duplicate someone elses site?